Education, education, education said Tony Blair
Where have I heard that before? I have been involved in education all my life and I still am. If I said life in a Lincolnshire village school is really remakably unchanged from the first school I taught at in a home counties affluent village in Hertfordshire so long ago, you might not believe me. Of course methods and techniques have changed but children are still learning. There are still warm and friendly teachers who offer their pupils great experiences and there are still green fields, swimming pools and football!
The enormous black hungry smoke belching stove of my first village classroom is now a sleek white painted radiator. Interviews for jobs usually have a small interview body, with bureaucratic paperwork sorted. The applicant for the job is not handed all the papers and told to sort it all out, and post it to the Education Officer themselves. Refreshment is not served in porcelain cups and saucers either.
There are no live grenades to be found nearby, and the school cleaner isn’t a ‘plezant phucker’ in his spare time in order to earn an ‘extra shillun or two.’ As far as I know there are no ghosts to be seen at dusk, hovering by cupboards and there are definitely no children shut up and forgotten overnight, not missed at home and let out by fellow pupils the next morning.
As for the cane called ‘Old Missie’ with her silver engraving, she has ended up in a museum.
I could tell you a thing or two that might make your hair stand on end…in fact I have in my ‘Tales Out of School’.
I hastily add that I have NEVER USED a cane!
Link: Tales out of school - jeannettemellwood.blogspot.com
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